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- The New Quarterly reaches for the top - Exchange Morning Post
Exchange Morning PostThe New Quarterly reaches for the topExchange Morning Post, Canada - 1 hour agoJudges cited his recent memoir The Names of Things, his book-length poem The Year One (winner of the Atlantic Poetry Prize in 2004), and his novella The ...
- Elsie von Maur, driving force of Quad-City symphony, dies at 106 - Quad-Cities Times
The Quad-City Symphony Orchestra used to practice on Sunday afternoons in Davenport’s Masonic Temple, sometimes only to a one-person audience of Elsie von Maur. Von Maur, of Davenport, died Monday at the age of 106. Her lasting legacy will be to ...
- The calendar - Miami Herald
For just 31 cents, Baskin-Robbins guests can enjoy a scoop and support the National Fallen Firefighters Association. Locations in Dade and Broward counties. 7 - 8:30 p.m. WINE GODS The Art and Wine Lecture Series features a a discussion on ...
- My boyfriend tries to find happiness in homelessness (The Charlotte Observer)
In April of my freshman year, my boyfriend, Terry, decided he wanted to be homeless. Among the decisions I expected a college boyfriend to make (changing cell phone plans, or maybe going vegan), homelessness was not one of them. Still, I took the situation calmly. I had known Terry since high school and had watched him pass through various phases: Goth, punk, anarchist, Marxist and Zen. When ...
- Of Emily Dickinson and Steve McQueen on the Smith River - Missoulian
“There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.” The line from Emily Dickinson drifted through my consciousness again last week on the starlit evening of the summer solstice. The insistent roll of the Smith River had lulled us all for ...
- Kansas City Author Pledges Support to National Fibromyalgia ... - PR-CANADA.net (press release)
Kansas City Author Pledges Support to National Fibromyalgia ...PR-CANADA.net (press release), Montenegro - Jun 10, 2008Mr. Summers was quoted as saying, ”I’ve loved writing all my life and have written poetry since I was a kid, but after meeting someone who actually does ...
- The Tracey Fragments - Filmcritic.com
The Tracey FragmentsFilmcritic.com - 4 hours agoFor what it's worth, however, these shards of art-school poetry fit into the palette: If any attempt at natural dialogue had been made, this would have been ...
- A twisting career path - Delaware Online
WASHINGTON -- More than a decade and a half ago, despairing that her poems would ever find an audience, Kay Ryan found herself writing one about a turtle. It was about as personal as a Kay Ryan poem ever gets. Ryan's appointment as the nation's new ...
- Artists 'lift up name of Jesus' - Herald News
In December, when Sheila White of Joliet attended a free concert in Joliet featuring former members of the award-winning Christian rock band Petra, her thoughts as well as her soul took flight. Why not assemble a group of little-known Christian ...
- MEET LEX: A uniquely gifted artist who calls his genre of music 'D ... - EURweb
*Honoring his native city of Detroit and its rich contribution to the history and evolution of Soul and R&B music, LEX originates a fresh new sound that resonates his experiences of having roots in the church, living the realities of life in the ...
- What is there to do at 93? Well, why not publish a book? - Recorder Community Newspapers
MORRISTOWN – For most people, just making it to the age of 93, is an accomplishment in itself. So what in the world is one to make of a retired attorney of that age who decided he wasn’t about to just putter around the house but instead plunge ...
- JAG opens “Summer Art Festival” - Associated Press of Pakistan
JAG opens “Summer Art Festival”Associated Press of Pakistan, Pakistan - 9 hours ago... of women’s life. The work of Riffat Khattak is done on the poetry of Ghani Khan that focus women issues and the calligraphic touch in the paintings. ...
- Who's Blogging (Washington Post)
Other spots where there's a definite buzz: · La Taza Coffeehouse (407-B Monticello Rd.). In Belmont, the up-and-coming neighborhood just over the tracks from downtown, owner Melissa Easter has combined her interest in South and Central American causes and commerce, including fair-trade coffee, w...
- The beauty and poetry of it (San Francisco Bay View)
For the past seven years, filmmakers Renaud Barret and Florent de La Tullaye have been filming Staff Benda Bilili, a revolutionary and politically active Congolese band made up of disabled musicians.
- Literary landscapes - Jerusalem Post
A long, winding path bordered with young trees and blooming flowers leads to Bar-Ilan University's northern campus, where sparkling new buildings stand in sharp contrast to the dilapidated structures on its southern edge. Under the soft lights in the ...
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